Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-03-09
DEALS in DIRT.
A Decided Awakening in the
Yankton Real Estate
Market.
Appearances Indicate that we are on
the Verge of an Active Boom.
Additions Plated and Prepare
ttOns to Plat Other Addi-
tions--$25,O 900 Worth
Sold.

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Sold.
The suspicion of a real a estate boom in
Yankton is STRENGTHENING into a reality
as the days and nights 60 by. The
days are scarcely marked any more by the
rising of the sun and the going down of
the same. Buyers and sellers tarry late IN
to the darkness over maps and plats and
betake themselves with the first CLEAN of
dawn to the outlying suburbs to feast
their eyes upon virgin prairie plains
and hillsides and valleys s%pringiug into
lots and blocks. Fitful sleep comes
during the abbreviated hours g%rudging-
ly offered to repose and speculation like
an uncanny nightmare, sits astfide the
unwilling devotees of morpheus and
beguiles them forth with the early
chorus from the rooster roost. This
awakening is gathering with force and
vigor and now promises to carry expect
alton to the highest realization. Property
which has lain idle these many years
gazing placidly down upon the busy
life below is coming forward to active
participation IN the values of ancient
Yankton. Every acre feels the awaken
ing impulse OF the first wash OF the
boom and is teeming with added dollars
and cents.
Last evening was an active one
at the various real estate head
quarters. O'Brien had O squad
from Sioux City within the walls OF his
office and when the resident sI,sculetors
would let him have his time he devoted
himself to the demands of his visitors.
Roberts cottage was q scene OF varied
active experiences, the presence OF buy
ere and sellers giving zest to the trans
actions within his domicile. Hanson
& Harris held forth with more modera-
ton, but with depth OF feeling which
portended large transactions. Deals
last evening were mostly with outside
parties.
- A1OOo % tkGuSuCtloh l1OSOu
was effected by O'Brien between local
owners and q party OF Sioux City gentle.
men consisting Of s. d. Hoole, James
Puck and B. w. Stoddard. These gen
tleman purchased the forty lying next
west from the fair grounds from o. j. B.
Harris, paying therefor $4,000,
and the forty purchased the pre-
yious evening by F.. M. and f. H. lie
bach, lying between the cemetery and
the insane hospital. For the latter tract
they paid $4,000. 1t was purchased the
night before by the sellers for Sl,6C0 and
the profits OF their twenty.four hours
speculation are $500. The forty ad
joining the fair grounds has been
plated to-day by e. FL. VanAntwerp
1t lies between Broadway and Douglas
avenue and will be bounded on the south
by Seventeenth street. Two n have
been laid out running through the plat
east and west and have been named
Church avenue and Bowen avenue. This
addition has been placed upon the mar
kst and will be sold in lots and blocks
to purchasers at home and abroad. The
other forty purchased by this syndicate
has not yet been plated, but Mr.. Hoole
who remains in town, says it probably
will be before long, as 1t is the inten'
tion of its owners to put the eighty acre
upon the market. E. III. O'Brien ant
Mr.. Hoole will attend to sales here il
Yankton and the other members Of tn,
syndicate will superintend transfers
at Sioux City.
The parties who have just come int,
possession OF the fair grounds forty to
day decided to plat that tract and opel
1t to sale In lots and blocks. This ad.
ditlon is across Douglas avenue from
the addition above described and the di
vision of the two into city property vii
add materially to the %pecuniary value o
that section of the city. Both are at
} t~ractive pieces ofland, lying high and dr.
} and are nearly level. The fair groun'
. tract has an artesian well upon it.
Judge Roberts sold last night to l..
Sheppard and w. S%tinson, Denver an
Sioux City parties. two forties lyin
, between the city and the insane asylum
but declines for the pre- sent to,.give pric
or particulars. 1t is understood thu
they will plat the tract.
Roberts also sold to Thomas Thorsol
g mayor Of Canton, 178 feet front on Wa
nut treet, between Third and Fourtl
on the west side OF the street neal tn
ner hall. These lots are $50 feet dee
and are in the business center OF q
city. Mr.. Thorson offers to turn
enough OF these lots for q site for IL
contemplated board of trade buIldir
r and to take stock in the improvement
for his pay. He is also willing to NAL
q satisfactory arrangement With Il
n Grand Army boys relative to their ha
7. Mr.. Thorson has authorized JUDI
n Roberts to make other purchases +
him and 1t is his evident intention
gather up considerable Yanktop re
4. estate.
Another important transfer by Jud.
is Roberts to-day gives Joseph Pier poi
e. ession of four lots n.the corner OF Cal
toll and Sixth, iast north of w. 81. M
10 Vay's residence. Consideration So 10
" f. J.IKahn has transferred to ontsi
parties three lots on artesian hill